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The Meetings Committee assists the staff and Board in planning and coordinating the NPA Annual Meetings.

This committee interacts with all NPA committees, officers, and staff to develop programmatic content for the NPA Annual Meeting, and works with the Outreach and Resource Development Committees to help advertise the meetings. This committee offers an opportunity to network with postdocs and administrators from institutions across the country. It also provides a great way to develop management and organizational skills. There are many small tasks on this committee if your availability is limited. The Annual Meeting is the showcase event of the NPA. Join us to help keep the meetings vibrant!

Charges

Identify and announce venues for the NPA Annual Meetings.

Develop agendas and programmatic content for meetings.

Convene a fundraising team to secure sponsors, exhibitors, and advertisers for meetings.

Convene teams to solicit and recommend travel and service awards.

Consult with staff and the Finance Committee to establish budgets for meetings.

Consult with other committees and Officers to avoid project duplication and promote coordination.

Meet Our Meetings Committee Leaders

Teiwei Cheng, M.D., Ph.D.

Meetings Committee Co-Chair

Tiewei (Leo) Cheng, M.D., Ph.D., is currently a
postdoctoral fellow at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,
where he studies epigenetics in the context of cancer drug resistance.
He obtained his medial degree from Wenzhou Medical College, China at 2005, and
received his residency training at Shanghai Cancer Hospital from 2005 to
2008. In 2014, he obtained his doctorate degree from Graduate School of
Biomedical Science, University of Texas Health Science Center at
Houston, where his study concentrated on experimental therapeutics. Upon
graduating from his doctoral program, Cheng transitioned into his
current position at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where his research
focuses on elucidating the role of histone deacetylases in the
development of resistance to proteasome inhibitors in multiple myeloma, a
malignancy of plasma cells. Outside of academia, he has been actively
involved in serving student community. He was the president of Student
InterCouncil (student government of UTHealth). He also represented
UTHealth at UT System Student Advisory Council.In his free time, he enjoys swimming, playing soccer, building PCs, and watching the NFL.

Jennifer Lamberts, Ph.D. Meetings Committee Co-Chair

Jennifer Lamberts, Ph.D., is currently an assistant professor of pharmacology in the College of Pharmacy at Ferris State University, as well as a visiting scientist at Van Andel Institute. She greatly enjoys teaching pharmacy students and is presently directing a course on disease pathophysiology. In the lab, her research is focused on elucidating the role of the small neuronal protein alpha-synuclein in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease. She received her doctorate in 2012 from the University of Michigan, where she studied opioid pharmacology. She credits her doctoral mentor, John Traynor, with instilling in her the importance of attending scientific meetings as a way to share ideas with other researchers. To this day, she enjoys participating in national meetings, and she previously sat on the local organizing committee of the annual Grand Challenges in Parkinson’s Disease meeting, in addition to helping plan several other local and regional conferences.